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47 Quotes About Being Bold And Daring

List Of 47 Provocative Quotes About Being Bold And Daring:

#1 James Kaiser

“Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you.”

#2 Euripides

”The bold are helpless without cleverness.”

#3 Tom Peters

”Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.”

#4 Billie Jean King

”Be bold. If you’re going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.”

#5 Thomas Jefferson

”I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”

#6 Carles Puigdemont

”The best leaders don’t set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.”

#7 Camille Pissarro

”Don’t be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.”

#8 Satya Nadella

”Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn. So the last part to me is the key, especially if you have had some initial success. It becomes even more critical that you have the learning ‘bit’ always switched on.”

#9 Herodotus

”He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.”

#10 Robert Frost

“Freedom lies in being bold.”

#11 Ruth Boorstin

“Be Bold in what you stand for and careful what you fall for.”

#12 Thucydides

”Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.”

#13 Victor Hugo

“The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it’s boldness.”

#14 Mae Jemison

”Timidity does not inspire bold acts.”

#15 Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune, and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.”

#16 Sarah Jessica Parker

”When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s considered romantic. When women do it, it’s often considered desperate or psycho.”

#17 William Shakespeare

”Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.”

#18 William O. Douglas

”We need to be bold and adventurous in our thinking in order to survive.”

#19 Tyra Banks

”Don’t save bold lashes and red lips for nighttime – do it in the day!”

#20 Bruce Lee

”Always be yourself, express yourself have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”    

#21 Joel Brown

“You decide every day who you will and will not be. Be bold in your decision but remember, choose wisely.”

#22 Helen Keller

”Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”

#23 Robert Kiyosaki

“Take risks, be bold and let your genius convert your fear into power and brilliance.”

#24 Ed Sheeran

”Be original; don’t be scared of being bold!”

#25 Swami Vivekananda

“Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore make your own future.”

#26 Dale E. Turner

”People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.”

#27 Ross Johnson

“Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold move which by definition, cannot be planned.”

#28 Anonymous

“Let the steps I take toward my destiny be bold ones – for I know I am bold enough to walk this path.”

#29 Mike Yaconelli

”Boldness doesn’t mean rude, obnoxious, loud, or disrespectful. Being bold is being firm, sure, confident, fearless, daring, strong, resilient, and not easily intimidated. It means you’re willing to go where you’ve never been, willing to try what you’ve never tried, and willing to trust what you’ve never trusted. Boldness is quiet, not noisy.”

#30 Angelina Jolie

“Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all these things that add up to the person you become.”

#31 Voltaire

“Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.”

#32 Nirav Sanchaniya

”Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating,no one else. So be bold and write on.”    

#33 Dorothea Brande

“Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.”

#34 Kerli

”Your life is your canvas, and you are the masterpiece. There are a million ways to be kind, amazing, fabulous, creative, bold, and interesting.”

#35 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”

#36 Anthony Storr

“Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.”

#37 Janna Cachola

”Be bold in pursuing what others believe is unrealistic because this will achieve more than being bland and unimaginative.”    

#38 Brendon Burchard

“I would rather be a hot mess of bold action, a make it happen learn on the fly kind of person, than a perfectly organized coward.”

#39 Israelmore Ayivor

”Take bold decisions. Don’t let doubts fumble decisions in your mind and make you confused over them. Pursue what you are convinced to do; else you set yourself up where you do not belong.”

#40 Francis Bacon

“Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.”

#41 Alan Alda

“Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.”

#42 Dumas Malone

“The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.”

#43 William Wordsworth

“How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.”

#44 Tony Gaskins

“The doors will be opened to those who are bold enough to knock.”

#45 Anonymous

”Be bold enough to use your voice, brave enough to listen to your heart, and strong enough to live the life you have always imagined.”

#46 Queen Latifah

“Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.”

#47 Fay Weldon

”Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.”

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References

https://www.monticello.org/thomas-jefferson/brief-biography-of-jefferson/
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/thomas-jefferson/